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Yahoo faces board challenge from activist shareholder

Posted February 14, 2012 - 9:45 pm

Activist Yahoo shareholder Daniel Loeb has rejected the slate of board candidates put forth by the company's newly minted CEO, serving notice of his intention to lobby for his own candidates instead.
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Senate bill may require 'critical' networks to adopt cyber standards

Posted February 14, 2012 - 4:02 pm

A bill in the U.S. Senate would require operators of so-called critical infrastructure networks to adopt cybersecurity practices if evaluations by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security find their security lacking.
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Yahoo talks with Alibaba end abruptly; shares drop nearly 6%

Posted February 14, 2012 - 3:25 pm

Internet pioneer Yahoo and its Asian partners have ended talks over a deal that would allow Yahoo to sell part of its stake in Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan while saving $4 billion in U.S. taxes.
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Royal Philips Electronics reports Web security breach

Posted February 14, 2012 - 12:24 pm

Health-care technology and lighting vendor Royal Philips Electronics has reported a possible security breach affecting a portion of its website, the company announced Tuesday.
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Mozilla will ask all certificate authorities to revoke SSL-spying certificates

Posted February 14, 2012 - 12:23 pm

Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.
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Can BitTorrent Live video streaming kill TV?

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:46 am

Bram Cohen, inventor of BitTorrent, wants to replace television with P2P video streaming over BitTorrent.
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Robot hockey player: it shoots, it scores!

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:05 am

It's February and it's cold, so let's watch a video of "the world's first autonomous humanoid robot ice hockey player."
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New video gives us Jar Jar Justice

Posted February 14, 2012 - 10:46 am

After sitting through the 3D version of Star Wars, Episode I over the weekend (basically because my 4-year-old isn't ready yet to understand how awful some of the things were in that film), I realized once again how much Jar Jar Binks is despised.
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Throttled iPhones help AT&T show how hard it is to drive smartphone customers away

Posted February 13, 2012 - 8:38 pm

Customers weren't thrilled when unlimited iPhone data plans ended, but none complained too much. Verizon got more expensive, but transparently. AT&T went with manipulation and cloaked accusations of data hoggery to push customers to tiered plans, or toward Verizon.
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Moves to the cloud can spark turf wars

Posted February 13, 2012 - 7:13 pm

The decision to migrate company information-technology functions to the cloud or elsewhere is usually broken down as a set of specific cost-benefit calculations. However complicated the weighing of the startup savings and the longer-term returns involved in outsourcing IT, it at least appears to be a rational process.
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AT&T aims to ease private-to-hybrid cloud transition

Posted February 13, 2012 - 6:31 pm

AT&T has launched a new version of its Synaptic Compute as a Service offering designed to help enterprises access capacity beyond their private clouds.
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Citrix simplifies cloud service management

Posted February 13, 2012 - 4:26 pm

Citrix is shipping a new version of its cloud management software CloudStack that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision cloud services.
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YouTube app for Google TV to get more functionality

Posted February 13, 2012 - 3:41 pm

Google announced Sunday that it would add functionality to the YouTube experience on Google TV, including complete channel pages and the ability to browse by channel.
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Building an IDPS without big iron

Posted February 13, 2012 - 3:31 pm

Companies seeking to deploy intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) for network security have traditionally had to rely on proprietary appliances that cost from $15,000 to $50,000. That puts IDPS out of reach for many small to midsize companies, but SaaS-based alternatives might fit the bill.
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Best practices for scaling up SaaS

Posted February 13, 2012 - 1:08 pm

Use best practices to manage risks around security, uptime guarantees, compliance, limitations of liability, remedies and other contract details.
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Anonymous took down CIA.gov Friday, then didn't, then did, then did it again today

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:47 pm

Anonymous first took credit for the DDOS attack that downed CIA.gov Friday, then said it was just reporting the outage, before discovering it had, actually, been behind the attack. CIA.gov is down again today, though it would be wise to wait to give credit this time.
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EU Parliament chief speaks out against ACTA

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:37 pm

The head of the European Parliament has spoken out against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) as thousands took to the streets across Europe to protest at the deal.
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Cisco's John Stewart on the latest security threats … and what enterprises can do to fight back

Posted February 13, 2012 - 11:17 am

Freelance writer Susan Perschke recently sat down with Cisco Vice President and Chief Security Officer John N. Stewart for an in-depth discussion of the state of enterprise security.
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Nimbula adds support for VMware hypervisor

Posted February 13, 2012 - 11:04 am

Nimbula is hoping to better serve enterprises with version 2.0 of its operating system, which adds compatibility with VMware's hypervisor and other new features. "
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Hacked Microsoft online store saved passwords in plain text

Posted February 13, 2012 - 10:56 am

Getting hacked is not good. Getting hacked then outed for keeping customer passwords in plain text is an epic not good.
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MySpace: The next hot social network?

Posted February 13, 2012 - 9:31 am

Don't call it a comeback, but MySpace's new owners may actually be breathing life into the late, great social network. Specific Media, which bought MySpace from News Corp. in June is expected to announce Monday that it has added one million new members since December. Specific Media CEO Tim Vanderhook says MySpace went from having zero new signups per day to averaging 40,000, according to The New York Times.
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UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs

Posted February 13, 2012 - 12:11 am

Uptime Software is the latest company aiming to help eliminate bill shock for cloud users.
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Google "Drive" could step on cloud partners' toes

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:51 am

Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing “people familiar with the matter” says the new “Drive” service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?
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How the Phoenix Suns basketball team takes on social media attacks

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:43 am

Every sport has its fans, and the Phoenix Suns basketball team is finding that use of social networking has become one of the main ways to keep in touch with its fan base -- though it can get dicey when basketball fans across the NBA go a little wild before big games.
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Forget public cloud or private cloud, it's all about hyper-hybrid

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:24 am

Cloud computing has gone from being a promising technology to a reality that brings a unique set of challenges along with benefits. To fully leverage the disruptive potential of cloud without getting trapped in a web of integration complexity, CIOs and their IT organizations need to focus on what it means to rethink their business as a collection of services.
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